The Fugitive's Properties

List of Illustrations
Debts
INTRODUCTION
The Slave's Two Bodies
Fugitive Property
The Agency of Form
Caveat Emptor
CHAPTER ONE
Fugitive Sound: Fungible Personhood, Evanescent Property
Theft and Gift
Copyright Law
The Human Phonograph
The Poetics of Property, 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford
Impersonation
Pro Bono Publico
CHAPTER TWO
The Fugitive's Properties: Uncle Tom's Incalculable Dividend
Fictions of Finance: Puttin' on Old Massa
Pro Bono Publico
Tom's par me la
Castles in the Air
The Social Covenant of Property
Cuttin' of Figgers
Sine Qua Non
CHAPTER THREE
Counterfactuals, Causation, and the Tenses of "Separate but Equal"
In Plain Black and White
Parallel Tracks
What Happened in the Tunnel
CONCLUSION
The Rules of the Game
Sin and Risk
Principle and History
Procedure and Pragmatism
Notes
Index